My first wife died poisoned; and the verdict of the jury has not absolutely acquitted me of the guilt of causing her death.
As long as you were ignorant of that the possibilities of happiness were always within our reach.

Now you know it, I say again--our married life is at an end." "No," I said.

"Now I know it, our married life has begun--begun with a new object for your wife's devotion, with a new reason for your wife's love!" "What do you mean ?" I went near to him again, and took his hand.
"What did you tell me the world has said of you ?" I asked.

"What did you tell me my friends would say of you?
'Not Proven won't do for us.

If the jury have done him an injustice--if he _is_ innocent--let him prove it.' Those were the words you put into the mouths of my friends.